Yarn Along – 3/5/15

Almost there! Gotta finish this sucker up! Only about ¼ of the back to go and then it’s done. It’s at this point in a project when I sometimes need a little incentive to finish.

And here it is: incentive in the form of Knitpicks Hawthorn Fingering weight yarn in color Vancouver.

I have wound the skein into two balls of yarn, just waiting to become my next socks.

My cat is rather enamored with my new Yarn Buddy. Does he look like he is imagining mischief, or is it just me?

Anyway, a Yarn Buddy is a lazy susan for yarn. It unspools as you knit – with a whisper of spinning ball bearings. My friend Melanie bought one and I had follow suit. It’s her fault! Once I realized it could help me with plying my yarn from my drop spindle I had the excuse I needed!

Off to finish up my sweater. Hope I have some socks started for next week’s yarn along!

I’d be happy to! Once I try out my theory and see if it works! I’m thinking of using it to chain ply – which I have never done before. Then I’d only have to manage one strand to make a 3-ply. It is all very theoretical at this point! 🙂